RYPAKOVA Olga

Date of Birth: 30 Nov 1984

Age: 36

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Place of birth: OSKEMEN

Birth Country:

Kazakhstan

Place of residence : OSKEMEN

Residence Country:

Kazakhstan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's Triple Jump

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Triple Jump B	Women's Triple Jump Qualification - Group B	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Long Jump	Triple Jump
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	-	3rd (14.74)
2012	London, GBR	-	1st (14.98)
2008	Beijing, CHN	Qual. (6.30)	2nd (15.11)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Triple Jump
2019	Doha, QAT	Qual. (14.09)
2017	London, GBR	3rd (14.77)
2015	Beijing, CHN	3rd (14.77)
2011	Daegu, KOR	2nd (14.89)
2009	Berlin, GER	9th (13.91)
2007	Osaka, JPN	9th (14.32)

Asian Games

Year	Location	Triple Jump
2018	Indonesia	1st (14.26)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Triple Jump
2019	Doha, QAT	DNS

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Triple Jump
2021	1 x 10th
2019	1 x 7th, 2 x 8th
2018	1 x 6th, 2 x 8th
2017	1 x 1st, 2 x 3rd, 1 x 4th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2017	Triple Jump	Zurich, SUI	14.55
3	2017	Triple Jump	Birmingham, GBR	14.29
3	2017	Triple Jump	Rome, ITA	14.64
4	2017	Triple Jump	Rabat, MAR	14.20
6	2018	Triple Jump	Oslo, NOR	14.12
6	2017	Triple Jump	Monaco, MON	14.12
7	2019	Triple Jump	Monaco, MON	14.31
8	2019	Triple Jump	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	14.16
8	2019	Triple Jump	Lausanne, SUI	14.35
8	2018	Triple Jump	Rabat, MAR	13.83
8	2018	Triple Jump	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	14.25

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Previous names:

Olga Alekseyeva

Spending time with family, fishing, mountain hiking, cooking. (inbusiness.kz, 16 May 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Politician

Coaching - Kazakh Academy of Sport and Tourism, Almaty, KAZ

Husband Denis Rypakov, daughter Anastasia [2004], son Kirill [2013]

Languages spoken:

English, Russian

Altay Athletics Club [KAZ] / Central Sports Army Club [KAZ]

Henk Kraaijenhof [personal], NED; Sergey Alekseyev [father], KAZ

Sporting relatives:

Her husband Denis Rypakov has also represented Kazakhstan in athletics, and won silver in the 400m at the 2003 World University Games in Daegu, Republic of Korea. Her daughter Anastasia has competed in athletics at national junior level in Kazakhstan. (vksport.kz, 31 Jan 2020; altayproteam.kz, 23 Apr 2020)

She took up athletics at age eight, and began competing in jumping events in 2007. (iaaf.org, 19 Feb 2010; frsk.kz, 23 May 2010)

She was influenced by her father who was a decathlete. She was a heptathlete before choosing to concentrate on the long and triple jump events. (iaaf.org, 19 Feb 2010; express-k.kz, 02 Nov 2007; yka.kz, 08 Dec 2009)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 12 Jan 2020)

Her parents. (sports.kz, 27 Feb 2016)

Philosophy:

"I just really love my sport. Athletics is my life, I like feeling competitive emotions." (forbes.kz, 01 Feb 2018)

In July 2021 she and boxer Kamshybek Kunkabayev were selected to be the flag bearers for Kazakhstan at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (astanatimes.com, 03 Jul 2021)

For her achievements at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, she has received the Order of Kurmet, the Order of Barys [second grade] and the Order of Parasat in Kazakhstan. (ustinka.kz, 29 Sep 2018)

She holds the title Honoured Master of Sport in Kazakhstan. (shooting-sports.kz, 18 Dec 2019)

General Interest

General
COMMISSION MEMBER
In 2019 she was elected as a member of the Athletes' Commission of the Asian Athletics Association. She has also served as member of the IAAF Athletes' Commission. (worldathletics.org, 01 Sep 2020; altayproteam.kz, 23 Apr 2020; qazathletics.kz, 14 Aug 2019)

POLITICIAN
In 2016 she was elected to the representative authority of the East Kazakhstan Region. (liter.kz, 18 Aug 2020; time.kz, 04 May 2016)

ATHLETICS CENTRE
In 2014 an athletics centre that bears her name was opened in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. (liter.kz, 13 Sep 2020)

Milestones

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro her bronze medal in the triple jump made her the first athlete representing Kazakhstan in any sport to win three Olympic medals, following her gold medal at the 2012 Games and silver at the 2008 Games. She was also the first athletics competitor representing Kazakhstan to have won more than one Olympic medal. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Nov 2020)

She became the first athlete from Kazakhstan to win a gold medal in athletics at a World University Games when she was victorious in long jump at the 2007 Games in Bangkok, Thailand. (IAAF, 11 Aug 2007)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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